I Think We're Alone Now by Abigail Parry Sherko Bekas In Sentenced to Life

In Sentenced to Life

Verse Matters harnesses the power of everyday stories

Aleš Šteger was born in 1973 in Ptuj

including imminent societal collapse and public unrest

his mind roams

I Think We're Alone Now by Abigail Parry Sherko Bekas In Sentenced to LifeI Think We're Alone Now was supposed to be a book about intimacy: what it might look like in solitude, in partnership, and in terms of collective responsibility. Instead, the poems are preoccupied with pop music, etymology, surveillance equipment and cervical examination, church architecture and beetles. Just about anything, in fact, except what intimacy is or looks like. So this is a book that runs on failure, and also a book about failures: of